Shoo - It can be shooed away by the player ("Thbbbbt!"), which will appear in the chat box, causing the dog to whine ("Whine!") and run away. If ignored, it will follow for a certain amount of time, and then it will leave to find a different player to follow. Players can shoo away a dog even if it is following someone else.

Feed - It can be fed bones (which is an easy Varrock Task), raw meat, or cooked meat. When players feed it, it happily barks, and will follow for a certain amount of time. If fed with more food, it will continue following, but will not enter any buildings. If the offering is inedible, the dog will growl and not eat it. A borrowed object cannot be eaten by a stray dog.

With cats - If there is a cat on the ground while near a stray dog, then it will bark at the cat. Many players object to this harassment of their well loved pet, and in turn use the 'Shoo' function. When a stray dog barks at a wily cat, the wily cat will fight the stray dog. Also, stray dogs are scared of hellcats.

A player shooing away a stray dog

In Varrock there were five stray dogs wandering around. Three were grey and two were brown. There are also several grey dogs wandering through the ghettos of Meiyerditch. However, none of them could be interacted with as they could with the Varrock stray dogs.

After completion of the 2012 Christmas event there was temporarily no stray dogs running around Varrock. If you were looking to complete the Varrock Easy Tasks, you could give a bone to the dog that lived in the doghouse from the Christmas event. This doghouse could be found in south east Al Kharid. At some point, however, this dog was also removed and a stray dog was added back to Varrock near Aubury's Rune Shop. In an unknown update you can now give bones to the stray dog in the kennel between Falador gardens and Falador Party Room.